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United States: Central government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1791–2025 · 235 observations · cgovexp

2025
4.59 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+2.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+6.6%a year

Central government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20254,591,369
20244,473,866
20234,239,938
20224,078,038
20214,958,890
20204,214,607
20192,864,962
20182,714,331
20172,566,674
20162,499,311

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

United States documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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